Thread: Glo Organize books from SD card
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Old 10-22-2012, 07:55 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Bookripper View Post
Oh Great Father, I need some better tips, something celestial perhaps? or I would have to make about 300-400 goddamn shelves!!!
I just spent weeks like a monk in solitude already, to get to the point where I am now. Why does Thy sprinkle my path with the Thorns of tribulation? :-)

to answer your Q: because I travel a lot and want all my stuff with me. (I actually have OVER 30.000 books, so this 2500 is a pretty tight selection. And also: because Kobo said I could!
I am used to reading books on a tablet. with astro or any other file-organizing app, u can create the perfect structures.
I only buy drag & play devices. I make a map on my pc, i want the same map on my external device, using the name I gave to the file. not some id-tag Crap...
If that is what you want, you bought the wrong device. The current Kobo ereaders all do it the same way: a library list, single level shelves and search on the title and author. This is a design decision by Kobo on how they think the devices should work. And Kobo said you could have the books on the device, I don't think they said they would support every individuals method of organisation. As far as I can tell, none of the "name" ereaders will do it the way you want to.

As an aside, when I have tried your method of storing books and music, it never worked for me. Because the genre is the root, there is the problem of authors that write in more than one genre. Their books get separated into different areas. My sense of order wants all the books from an author in the same place. I much prefer to be able to tag them and us a search to find all similar books.
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why do I feel I have weeks and weeks of painfully slow sorting crap ahead???
If all those books have their metadata set correctly, I think I could do it in a day or two with calibre. Doing it the way murg suggested wouldn't be that hard either.
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